scholarly journals Contemporary Aboriginal savanna burning projects in Arnhem Land: a regional description and analysis of the fire management aspirations of Traditional Owners

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ansell ◽  
Jay Evans ◽  
Adjumarllarl Rangers ◽  
Arafura Swamp Rangers ◽  
Djelk Rangers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Carbon Abatement ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Arnhem Land ◽  
Savanna Burning ◽  
Land Management Planning

The growth of the carbon industry in Australia over the last decade has seen an increase in the number of eligible offsets projects utilising the savanna burning methods in northern Australia. Many of these projects are operated by Aboriginal people on Aboriginal lands utilising local Aboriginal knowledge and customary burning practice. The present paper reviews existing land management planning documents to describe the aspirations of Traditional Owners in relation to fire management at a regional scale in Arnhem Land. Available data collected in the course of savanna burning operations are then utilised to examine the extent to which the savanna burning projects are meeting these goals. There were six clear goals in relation to fire management within the planning documents across Arnhem Land. Traditional Owners want to: (1) continue the healthy fire management of their country; (2) see fewer wildfires; (3) protect biodiversity; (4) protect culturally important sites; (5) maintain and transfer knowledge; and (6) create a carbon abatement. The results from this paper suggest that although the savanna burning projects are annually variable, these goals are being met. Importantly, the present paper clearly communicates a description of contemporary fire management from the perspective of Traditional Owners at a broad regional scale.

Fire management: A component of land management planning

1979 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis T. Egging ◽  
Richard J. Barney
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Land Management Planning

scholarly journals Indigenous Knowledge and Seasonal Calendar Inform Adaptive Savanna Burning in Northern Australia

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle McKemey ◽  
Emilie Ens ◽  
Yugul Mangi Rangers ◽  
Oliver Costello ◽  
Nick Reid
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Wild Food ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Savanna Burning ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Abatement

Indigenous fire management is experiencing a resurgence worldwide. Northern Australia is the world leader in Indigenous savanna burning, delivering social, cultural, environmental and economic benefits. In 2016, a greenhouse gas abatement fire program commenced in the savannas of south-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, managed by the Indigenous Yugul Mangi rangers. We undertook participatory action research and semi-structured interviews with rangers and Elders during 2016 and 2019 to investigate Indigenous knowledge and obtain local feedback about fire management. Results indicated that Indigenous rangers effectively use cross-cultural science (including local and Traditional Ecological Knowledge alongside western science) to manage fire. Fire management is a key driver in the production of bush tucker (wild food) resources and impacts other cultural and ecological values. A need for increased education and awareness about Indigenous burning was consistently emphasized. To address this, the project participants developed the Yugul Mangi Faiya En Sisen Kelenda (Yugul Mangi Fire and Seasons Calendar) that drew on Indigenous knowledge of seasonal biocultural indicators to guide the rangers’ fire management planning. The calendar has potential for application in fire management planning, intergenerational transfer of Indigenous knowledge and locally driven adaptive fire management.

Ecological thresholds and the status of fire-sensitive vegetation in western Arnhem Land, northern Australia: implications for management

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew C. Edwards ◽  
Jeremy Russell-Smith
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Fire History ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Fire Regime ◽  
Vegetation Types ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Study Region ◽  
Ecological Thresholds ◽  
Arnhem Land ◽  
The Status

The paper examines the application of the ecological thresholds concept to fire management issues concerning fire-sensitive vegetation types associated with the remote, biodiversity-rich, sandstone Arnhem Plateau, in western Arnhem Land, monsoonal northern Australia. In the absence of detailed assessments of fire regime impacts on component biota such as exist for adjoining Nitmiluk and World Heritage Kakadu National Parks, the paper builds on validated 16-year fire history and vegetation structural mapping products derived principally from Landsat-scale imagery, to apply critical ecological thresholds criteria as defined by fire regime parameters for assessing the status of fire-sensitive habitat and species elements. Assembled data indicate that the 24 000 km2 study region today experiences fire regimes characterised generally by high annual frequencies (mean = 36.6%) of large (>10 km2) fires that occur mostly in the late dry season under severe fire-weather conditions. Collectively, such conditions substantially exceed defined ecological thresholds for significant proportions of fire-sensitive indicator rain forest and heath vegetation types, and the long-lived obligate seeder conifer tree species, Callitris intratropica. Thresholds criteria are recognised as an effective tool for informing ecological fire management in a variety of geographic settings.

scholarly journals Information from geophysics for land management planning, Broomehill, Western Australia

2006 ◽  
Vol 2006 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Gregory J. Street ◽  
Abbott Simon ◽  
Ladyman Marty ◽  
Anderson-Mayes Ann-Marie
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Land Management Planning

Kava : A Challenge to Alcohol?

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-53
Author(s):  
J.E. Cawte
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
The South ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
North East ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Arnhem Land

Kava has been introduced into Aboriginal communities in Northern Australia. Persons from Yirrkala in North East Arnhem Land visiting the South Pacific region on study tours have been impressed by their welcome in Kava bowl ceremonies, and some of them hoped that the Aborigines might use Kava instead of alcohol.In 1983 many Aboriginal people in Arnhem Land used Kava, and much more was used in 1984. By 1985 it became a social epidemic or ‘craze’ in many communities. Rings of people of both sexes and of all ages often sit together under trees around Kava bowls for many hours. They may drink up to a hundred times the amount normally drunk in the Pacific Islands by the same number of people in the same time.

Great Basin Land Management Planning Using Ecological Modeling

2006 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara A. Forbis ◽  
Louis Provencher ◽  
Leonardo Frid ◽  
Gary Medlyn
Keyword(s):  
Great Basin ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Ecological Modeling ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Land Management Planning

Fire ecology and Aboriginal land management in central Arnhem Land, northern Australia: a tradition of ecosystem management

2002 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Yibarbuk ◽  
P. J. Whitehead ◽  
J. Russell-Smith ◽  
D. Jackson ◽  
C. Godjuwa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Management ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Fire Ecology ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Arnhem Land

A soft optimization approach to forest land management planning

1988 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 545-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Bruce Bare ◽  
Guillermo A. Mendoza
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Optimization Techniques ◽  
Multiple Objective Linear Programming ◽  
Optimization Approach ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Decision Environment ◽  
Land Management Planning ◽  
Planning Problems

Forest land management planning provides a rich environment for the use of optimization techniques that incorporate multiple criteria and operate within a soft optimization decision environment. Using de novo programming, several approaches for examining planning problems are described where the objective is not simply to optimize a given system, but to design an optimal system. Both single and multiple objective linear programming models are used to illustrate this new approach and several illustrative examples are discussed.

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